Summer schools
EAPP summerschools are organized with about the same frequency as the conferences. For the organization of the summerschools, often the support is sought of other associations. EAPP-members should feel free to suggest proposals for summerschools to the Executive Committee, which will then be evaluated on their feasibility in terms of content, organization, and finances.
2009 Summer School on
Meta-Analysis and Research Synthesis in Personality Psychology
supported by the European Association for Personality Psychology (EAPP) and the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID). The Summer School will be held during the week of August 24 to 28 at Oppurg Castle in Germany.
For detailed information, please download the Call for Application (PDF).
The Summer School will be organized by Dr. Kristin Mitte, Department of Psychology, University of Jena, Germany. For any questions concerning the summer school, please contact Kirstin Mitte ( mail@kristin-mitte.de) or visit the web site at http://www.uni-jena.de/diffpsy_summerschool09.html
2011 Summer School on
Robust statistics for personality data
The next summer school will take place in 2011 in Bertinoro, Italy on the topic of «Robust statistics for personality data». Organizers of this summer school will be Jens B. Asendorpf ( jens.asendorpf@rz.hu.-berlin.de) and Marco Perugini ( marco.perugini@unimib.it).
Some information on the topic of robust statistics: Traditional parametric statistical procedures such as the Pearson correlation, regression, and tests of group differences by t-tests and analysis of variance depend much more on unrealistic assumptions than most psychologists believe. Biased results due to extreme cases such as outliers or mixed distributions of a small extreme group and a much larger normal group are common in psychology, and may be one of the major reasons for the embarrassingly low replicability of findings in psychological research. In recent years, numerous alternatives to parametric statistics have been developed, called robust statistics (see overview by Erceg-Hurn et al., American Psychologist, 2008, pp. 591-601), and have been implemented in freely available statistical packages such as R or S-Plus.
The aim of the planned summer school on robust statistics is to make participants familiar with robust statistics and its implementation in R. Participants are encouraged to bring own data for analyses under supervision of faculty members.